Packaging Technologist

Reckitt; Kingston upon Hull; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Packaging Technologist to manage and execute packaging activities that support various projects including new product development and process improvements. The role requires technical expertise in packaging manufacturing and a strong project management background within the FMCG sector. The successful candidate will also coach and develop team members while ensuring processes are validated and completed efficiently.

Benefits

Parental benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Life insurance

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years' experience in packaging technology or manufacturing.
• Validation experience with new packaging processes and procedures.
• Project management experience with deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Manage and execute packaging activities for projects.
• Support troubleshooting and validation of equipment.
• Co-ordinate production trials and manage project costs.

Skills

Supply Chain Management

Collaboration

Relationship management

Data analytics

Job description

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.

Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Manufacturing

Our supply chain is the backbone of our business. It's how we get our trusted products to people all over the world, safely and efficiently. And it's our talented and passionate teams that make this happen.

If you're looking for a career in supply chain, there's no better place to be than Reckitt. We offer a variety of exciting opportunities in all areas of the supply chain, from planning and procurement to manufacturing and logistics. You could join our Global Supply Planning team to develop and implement our global supply strategy, or work with our Procurement Centre of Excellence team to negotiate and manage our supplier relationships.

Our Manufacturing Excellence team help us improve the efficiency, quality and safety of our manufacturing operations, and our Logistics Excellence team develop new and innovative ways to distribute our products to customers.

About the role

As a Packaging Technologist you will Manage and execute Packaging activities - to support delivery of Projects including, NPD/EPD, GM, Productivity, Capex Qualification and implementation of new technology to support compliance.Packaging Technical expertise – Understanding packaging manufacturing and supply chain in order to provide technical solutions and resolution of quality issues. Support operations, quality and engineering in the resolution of any issues affecting current business involving packaging components or equipment. You will Work with engineering, validation and operations teams to ensure all equipment and processes within the packaging area are fully validated. Be r esponsible for delivery of assigned projects, including technical execution, management of project costs and timings. Coach and develop packaging technicians to deliver KPIs, improve individual & team capability.

Your responsibilities

• Support resolution of issues affecting current business. Fully conversant with production line operations pertinent to delivering quality, safety and efficiency.
• Support factory troubleshooting that are packaging related such as design, specification, supplier changes.
• Ensure all equipment and processes within packaging area are fully validated. Support validation department in prioritising activity for completion and impact assessment.
• Responsible for scoping and execution of production trials ensuring; scheduling and availability of components, documentation, approvals, sampling/testing, stakeholder relations to ensure functional support.
• Management of packaging projects - co-ordinate activity across functions to flawlessly execute on time in full and on budget.
• Coach and developing packaging Technologists to deliver KPIs. Performance manage Packaging Technicians if assigned / coaching and sharing expertise with team to realise the true potential of the team’s capability, delivering work plans that stretch and ensure development of skills and expertise
• Support delivery of CI for packaging processes and procedures.

The experience we're looking for

• Experience in liaising with stakeholders across multiple departments, gaining alignment on project plans and acceptance criteria.
• Validation experience – track record of validating new packaging processes, components and procedures. Knowledge of adopting risk and science based approach to validation (risk assessment tools such as FMEA), identification of acceptance criteria, authoring, executing and writing up validation documentation
• Operations experience – real knowledge of operational challenges and practices, and understanding of technical department’s internal customer
• minimum of 2 years’ experience in pack tech, graphics, print, repro or manufacturing (ops, engineering, quality, technical) background
• Experience above to be within FMCG environment, preferably pharmaceuticals
• Project management / trials experience – experience in planning, coordinating, executing and documenting trial or project activity to set deadlines
• Experience working within high pressure environment, meeting tight deadlines

The skills for success

Supply Chain Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Relationship management, Business acumen, Productivity management, Improve business processes, Advanced analytics, Data analytics, Manufacturing excellence.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.

We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.